VP/Finance, Treasurer Dan Figenshu Exits Glenn Beck's TheBlaze

July 9, 2015 at 3:46 PM (PT)

ALL ACCESS hears that THEBLAZE VP/Finance, Treasurer, and board member DAN FIGENSHU is exiting GLENN BECK's multimedia company as of FRIDAY (7/10). FIGENSHU, at THEBLAZE since 2011 and a former manager at SIMON AND SCHUSTER and CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP, is ticketed for another media company in NEW YORK to be announced shortly. A replacement for FIGENSHU at THEBLAZE will also be announced soon.

An internal e-mail from Interim CEO KRAIG KITCHIN said that FIGENSHU did "a remarkable job of guiding us from the smaller company we were five years ago to the diverse media and product company we’ve become today" and added that his position "will be filled by another competent individual who can take on the diverse duties of this position, and I am confident the transition will be smooth...."